i know a lot of people are struggling around here with the lost summer of 2010.  it's not bothering me that much.  i've just been too busy and too tired to care that Seattle hasn't turned from its usual curmudgeonly gloom into a milder version of California.  but at the same time i really want to get away; this feeling is confused between desire to ( Read more... )

Tuesday i had a job interview outside of Bastyr... my first in 3 years.  i was nervous and stuttery, but it really wasn't too bad.  i didn't get the job though, so the $6 for parking at Seattle U campus now makes me angry.  you'd think they'd have a parking spot for job applicants ( Read more... )

Not that I frequent the site much, but this email from OkCupid almost made me vomit:

“We are very pleased to report that you are in the top half of OkCupid's most attractive users. The scales recently tipped in your favor, and we thought you'd like to know.

How can we say this with confidence? We've tracked click-thrus on your photo and analyzed ( Read more... )

a strange, but very pretty boy named Davied died today, and no one has offered any real details besides mentioning he probably had a drug problem and was generally a mess.  i never got to know him because i heard way more about him from others than from himself, but we did chat a couple of times.  he was only in his 20s, and that's sad.  it's also ( Read more... )

every time i log in here to write something it tries to reload a previous aborted attempt at writing something.  until tonight.  apparently i've been quiet enough for long enough LJ has forgotten me.  that's okay.  sometimes you have to go inside yourself.  besides, i'm fairly confident i'm going to remember some recent events for a long time ( Read more... )

1. i find it interesting to note how many guys will send messages to me on adam4adam or manhunt between 1 and 3 or 4 am Sunday morning... many more times than i can get in an entire week.  sadly, it took years for me to realize this is what happens when they run out of better options and desperation kicks in ( Read more... )

Of all the tributes that have come out for Ted Kennedy, the best ones have shown what i think is probably the most remarkable aspect of this man -- despite being in the Senate for an astonishing 47 years, he was a deeply thoughtful, kind, compassionate man, unlike the usual self-serving, heartless career politicians that manage to claw their way to ( Read more... )

funny thing happened to me today while at work, repetitively sticking labels onto tab dividers and listening to idiots howl at Claire McCaskill... poor Claire; she did a great job handling the mob... but i realized to myself, why am i living in this country?  i mean really, when they sing God Bless America do i really want a being i'm not sure i ( Read more... )

The economy's teh suck.  Health care reform is nearly DOA.  Referendum 71 is appearing to be close to getting on the ballot, which means 3 months of fighting back the charges that babies will be sodomized and doctors will be forced to allow orgies in the lobby.  my boss is on an unending vacation and i have a disaster of a project that portends to ( Read more... )

it's 3:30 am and i can't sleep... not for the reason you might think.  i have a window air conditioner, but yes, it only keeps me from being sweaty uncomfortable.  it's still perfectly capable of keeping me awake -- it buzzes every time the compressor comes on, so the last couple of nights i've switched it to "fan" mode before trying to sleep.  ( Read more... )